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Well I finally sprung for a Nokia N800. I think I am going to like it. I have use it for all the standard stuff, but would like to stream video from my mythbox. I have googled around and seemed to discover that this in not real easy. It seems many have never gotten an N800 to stream properly. I didn't see anyone that could say they had it working 100%. I did flash the N800 with the latest update. I have .avi files on the mythbox that I can copy to a SD and see just fine but that is it. I have read about orb but no linux port that I can find. Only Window$(spit). Any suggestions?

spotslayer wrote:Well I finally sprung for a Nokia N800. I think I am going to like it. I have use it for all the standard stuff, but would like to stream video from my mythbox. I have googled around and seemed to discover that this in not real easy. It seems many have never gotten an N800 to stream properly. I didn't see anyone that could say they had it working 100%. I did flash the N800 with the latest update. I have .avi files on the mythbox that I can copy to a SD and see just fine but that is it. I have read about orb but no linux port that I can find. Only Window$(spit). Any suggestions?

Actually, I believe that Allan does this on his 770 daily. Allan?

You can stream from the mythbox without to much problems. You'll need to get a program call 770-encode from http://www.bleb.org/software/770/770-encode.pl This is a neat little program that will encode just about any format mplayer can play into a format that the nokia can play. I'm pretty sure it works with the 800 as well. Put that in usr/local/bin on your myth box.
You'll also need a small wrapper script that I put together to call the 770-encode script after your show is done. I've put it here http://thelinuxlink.net/~metzlera/770-call.sh
Place that in usr/local/bin also.
You'll need to run mythtv-setup and go to the job command page and create a new job. In the job command box put the following
/usr/local/bin/770-call.sh "%FILE%" "%TITLE%" "%SUBTITLE%" "%STARTTIME%"
You'll then need to create a directory called nokia in your /myth directory and then put a link to it in /var/www.

I hope I haven't left anything major out of these steps. I set it up a while ago and never bothered to write down how i did it.

Have Fun!

--Allan

Thank's guys. I will give it a try. I had the 770-encode but I see in ur script you have some parameters. I had also just encoded them on a different computer and copied them to mythbox. Hope this works.

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[Slightly OT but I didn't want to start another thread]

Where did you get your N800 from? I'm looking at the usual places, buy.com and amazon.com. Amazon is slightly cheaper but their free shipping is really slow these days. Any other sources that you recommend?

I just got mine at CompUSA. They had a sale on and it was $349. So I just went down and bought it. They had plenty in stock.

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Compusa closed their stores in our area.

you can get the 770 for 150 dls on Ebay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Nokia-770-Internet- ... dZViewItem

This is a question to Allan and Linc and others who are using 770-encode.pl to encode video for Nokia N800. I've tried the script on a couple of different videos -- though not from MythTV, but xvids that I downloaded from not-so-legit sources. The video looks fine but the audio is completely screwed up. It's basically just screeching sounds. Did you have this problem too? I don't know how to tweak mencoder to use the right settings. Any ideas?

coolfrood wrote:This is a question to Allan and Linc and others who are using 770-encode.pl to encode video for Nokia N800. I've tried the script on a couple of different videos -- though not from MythTV, but xvids that I downloaded from not-so-legit sources. The video looks fine but the audio is completely screwed up. It's basically just screeching sounds. Did you have this problem too? I don't know how to tweak mencoder to use the right settings. Any ideas?

Try this link. Not N800 specific but has info concerning memcoder and sound.

http://www.petedavis.net/MySite/DynPage ... ?pageid=25

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This is a bit off topic but I just updated the OS to the latest and greatest it has 1 "feature" I don't like...Nokia ads on the desktop! Man that just chafes my shorts.